JC:
Jan Aldrich and I exchanged a number of emails. From them I discovered that:

Instead
of being days apart, my three cases were only "hours" apart on Nov. 4/5, 1957;
two hours betweenKirtlandandStokes, four hours between Stokes andSebago, and at the max from first case
to last (Kirtland to Sebago), six or seven hours; cases of strikingly similar phenomena
described by apparently unrelated, unconnected people. Coincidence? . . . ."

Talking to Brad Sparks, it
turned out I was incorrect concerning the dates and time by a few hours:

19 Nov 2002:Brad Sparkswrote
me to clarify the dates and times of these three cases.

He gave
good reasons why errors were made (it wasn't my fault) and said " Stokes'
sighting was DAYTIME at 1:10 PM (MST) and on Nov 4, 1957, not Nov 5. (Coral Lorenzen,
Flying Saucers: Startling Evidence, p. 94. " I have to be careful here because
NICAP criticized the Lorenzen's for not being careful at times concerning the accuracy
of some of their dates. But Blue Book seems to confirm this. BLUE BOOK lists Stokes
case as occurring on Nov 4.)

He also said that his research showed: "The Sebago case was at 5:10-5:37 AM (CST) Nov 5 . . . not 5:10-5:21 as I had written. (I checked the time given in my
original Newsday article and found Brad to be correct here. So the Sebago's contact time was actually *longer* than I originally thought. i.e. it was actually a contact over a 27 minute period.)

So, *corrected* occurance data on my three cases is:

Stokes,
NM...1:10 pm ? (MST), 4 Nov 57, which concerned stalled autos, however the time did not appear in the article, and there was not enough additional information available for investigation.

Still only hours apart: Jan Aldrich informed me there wasn't enough support for the Stokes case, but even if you eliminate it, there were approximately six or seven hours between Kirtland and Sebago (figuring in Sebago as if on Mountain
time) and the Sebago contact lasted close to a half-hour. (Plenty of time to figure out what it *wasn't*.)

10/21/2007: If you haven't read this already, one can click HERE to see an update on the Sebago case. Be sure to come back and read the letters Jan & I exchanged, and observe the dates of all sightings as well as the sighting details Jan enumerated for me.

Some interesting questions:1) Sebago: Does it take 27 minutes for a missile to fly down-range after it is launched? 2) Kirtland: What was it that flew over that base and in front of those control tower operators within seven hours prior to the Sebago sighting? 3)After reading Jan's two letters below, how do we explain those other sightings and car stallings? Is it a mere coincidence that the timing of all the amazing sightings reported happened in proximity to one another and my three cases? Do the case details sound like just hysterics, hoax or newspaper hype? Could the military have caused those sightings (Trying to hide the missile test)? More importantly, was the military in 1957 (or is it today?) capable of doing what was reported? (stalling cars, etc.) Considering the information found in the surrounding sighting descriptions, what the Kirtland tower operators reported, and asking ourselves how much coincidence is allowable before we start eliminating coincidence as a possible explanation, I think it is fair to say, this wave of cases appears to be something "other" than simply military inspired.

Also
located below this next one are two Letters Jan wrote me which illustrate a large
number of other sightings occurring Nov. 2nd & 3rd, just prior to my three
selected cases. (jc 3/28/2005:and additionally, just to let you know this is down at the bottom of this page, here is a link to research I just found concerning other similarly described objects reported in Brazil at at approximately the same time. The research was published in the 1960's by Dr. Olavo Fontes. . . but finish Jan's info. below on this page first, or come back to it.)

Jan's really interesting Letters to Me:

Jan's original letter with incorrect time and date for Stokes & Sebago(Not specifically Jan's fault. He was quoting available information
at the time. Brad Sparks just pinned it down a little further.)

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reference to
the 1960 "Skything" incident is only a"maybe."
The description given by the scientific people who observed it
indicates it was there for some viewings and not present for others.
Because of that fact and because it was definitely not a "side-lobe,"
noting it was traveling in the opposite direction from the launched
vehicle at a much greater rate of speed, this researcher would like
to
see a complete, definitive answer to what this was. We still don't have
one to this date. It is still an unknown, and an odd-one at that.

Also, from reading the cases Jan sent
me below, another question
comes to mind; Exactly what would spark so many
people to
report what is documented below in so short a space of time?
i.e. Exactly what phenomenon sparked the numerous reports?
It doesn't appear
to this researcher as though it is all simply
psychologically based, newspaper
stimulated or hoaxed.
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jc continued: If
the following group of cases from Jan (Nov 2&3, 1957)
stimulates your curiosity and you
didn't read it above, come back here
when you are finished reading Jan/s information,
and take an in-depth
look at
Kirtland AFB 11/4/57 , authenticated by the AF's
Project Blue
Book, The Condon Committee, and Atmospheric Physicist
James
McDonald. Follow that with newspaper articles on the
Sebago
11/5/57 from that same series. If you've already read them,
you might check out
the detailed workups concerning two cases from
the
Belgium 1989/90 series, another regarding the
Illinois,
USA 2000
sightings, and a fourth from Chicago O'Hare Airport (Nov. 2006). They
make one realize this whole phenomena is still ongoing.
The occurrence
and details of each are thoroughly verified and thoroughly investigated.
Perhaps you have a really good answer as to what any of them were as
well.
(But again, finish the rest of Jan's information below first. His
information also helps one to
realize that mass hysteria couldn't
possibly have caused _everything_ that was reported.)-
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Greenwood,
Project 1947 contributors, and I have screened about
1000 1957 newspapers
world wide. In addition Ed Stewart and I
copied most of the 1957 files
(much material seems to be missing)
at CUFOS. CUFOS also had several
scrap books and loose unfiled
material and unsorted files belonging to ICARF. A real gem
belonged to newspaper columnist Bulkley Griffin. It had
lots of
clippings from small newspapers that carried Griffins columns.
CUFOS let us borrow these and send them to Greenwood who arrange
and mounted
the clippings and made copies. Recently Tom Rouse
sent me copies of
his clipping collection, and Loren Gross
acquired the 1957 clipping service
material from Robert Gribble.
In addition Greenwood paid Columbia University
to put Dr. Leon
Davidson's scrapbooks on microfilm. Swords, Gross,
Greenwood,
Jerry Clark, and I went to the University of Arizona to check
out
(and massively copy) McDonald's files.

So
for 1957 we all did not just fall off the turnip truck.
However, it feels
that way. There are indeed lost or little known
material about the 1957
flap. It is not well documented. We sent all our material to
Loren Gross. So far he has produced 10 booklets on 1957. I have
talked to Richard Hall about publishing this series in a FUFOR report.
It looks promising.

Here
is the summarized chronology of 2 Nov '57

Youngstown,
Ohio, early morning, two waitresses see egg-shaped
object zipping along near
cemetery.

Well, you might want to correct the number of books
Loren wrote on 1957 to
10.

3 Nov, continued chronology

Fowler contacted Sheriff
Weir Clem and the Texas Highway Patrol.

Fowler
is answering the phone as fast as he can pick it up.

A
sheriffs unit from Aton says "The Thing in the sky east of Whitharral.

Frank D. Williams of Kermit saw the
it four miles north of town. He said that every time the things lights
went off and
on, his car lights and motor would go off. When it took
off
it sounded like thunder.(jc: engine stalling)

At
12:45 am about 5 miles east of Levelland Ronald Martin of Levelland
saw a ball of fire about a mile ahead of him. It was so bright it lit
up his truck cab. His engine quit and the lights went out, but restarted
itself when the object left. (jc: engine stalling)

About
10 miles NE of Levelland, two grain combines stopped as an object flew by.

At about 1:00 am, 2 miles
NW of Levelland, Sheriff Clem and Deputy McCullough when the pavement was
lit up by a light that disappear instantly. The Sheriff did not talk
about this sighting until after his retirement in 1975.

In
the same area two Highway Patrol men saw flashes come from the same direction.

About 1:00 am, Fire Marshall
Roy Jones was driving north of Levelland, his car started to act up and his
lights dimmed. He only observed a streak of light after the vehicle
problems.

About 1:15
am, 5 miles west of Levelland James D. Long of Waco saw "The Thing"
with its lights on. Then, the lights went out. As his truck approached
the object its lights came on and his engine quit and his lights went out.
It took off with a roaring sound. His vehicle restarted when the
UFO had gone. (jc: engine stalling)

2:00 am Plainview,
Texas (about 50 miles south of Levelland) a sound like the wind was heard
and her bedroom was flooded with a flash of light.

Levelland
Sun-News report got on the road to look for the thing. He saw nothing
but observed that the sky was clear or near clear.

About
am. White Sand Proving Grounds, the White Sand daily diary had the
following entry: "three military police, in separate sightings, reported
seeing a mysterious object make a controlled landing and take off in an
isolated area uprange."

2:50
pm between Midway and Odessa, Texas an object dropped out of the heavy overcast,
and disappeared in the fog.

Cincinnati,
Ohio UFO spotted.

Scotia,
Nebraska, about 6:00 pm a boy and his sister saw a humming UFO come down
close to them. When the boy started towards it, he was unable to move.

Demming, NM, 7:30 pm, UFO
recorded on camera.

Late
at night. Near Roswell, NM. While driving home two women
notice a glow in the clouds. Their car lights went out. When
checked by a mechanic the lights later worked perfectly.

(4/30/2007 jc: Count through the above incidents in Jan's letters to me,
and note how many involved
engine stalling. It wasn't just one or two.

Question 12/10/2008: Is it nuts to think a UFO could somehow have
enough power to stall out cars in November 1957?

Answer: Is it equally as nuts for people to witness a UFO able to evade
radar it is hovering immediately over, and
having enough power to
cut a clear-air hole in clouds over a major airport in November 2006,
almost 50 years later?

After one reads the cases I've highlighted or URLed above, honest readers
should realize
that explanations like earthlights/TST and helmet visions, mirages, Venus simply don't cut the mustard here. Even though some would like to ignore
or reject the
evidence you've read to this point, it should be obvious these people
can't have all been hallucinating, seeing stars, or misidentifying . . . and there
weren't many satellites up there back then either.

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Further information regarding the Levelland cases
can be obtained from Project Blue Book files at:

"unidentified objects" shaped like a flying saucer, and tear-shaped devices. "One object," said the report, "when seen from below, showed a spherical outline and its color was
undefined for some, like stainless steel for others. The size was not determined. All
the reports called attention to the high speed, controlled maneuvers, and extreme mobility of the objects spotted. Their movements were not continuous like those of an airplane—but abrupt and rapid, with sudden changes of course and speed, and right-angle turns."

"a distinct oval-shaped outline and was about three times as long as it was wide. It was
silvery-white in color and reflected sunlight with what looked like a metallic shine."

". . . cloudless sky and no haze. The object left no vapor trail or exhaust. No projections
were noted on the surface. It was not rotating, but the small change of shape at intervals
suggested an oscillatory motion of some sort."

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"Q. What was the color of the object? A. It showed a dark grey color, appearing to be surrounded—mostly in the area ahead
of it—by a kind of condensation of a greenish, phosphorescent vapor (or mist).- (Editor's note: My sighting in 1967 involved a mist around the vehicle)

"Q. Did the object appear to be metallic? A. Yes. It was obviously a solid object.

"Q. How was it flying? Any special characteristic?A. Yes. It showed an undulatory movement as it flew across the sky, like the
flight
of a
bat. And when it came back, it changed speed abruptly, with no
transition, in a jump.
(N.B. The initial flight-path of the observed object appears somewhat similar to that described by astronomer Walter Webb when speaking of his own 1951 sighting. He told me it was the initial spur to his many years of interest and continued study of UFOs
.)

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December 5, 1957.

"silvery in color and round-shaped; its angular diameter was similar to that of the full moon’s."

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"A silvery, circular object, with an apparent size compared with the full moon, crossed
the sky silently at about six thousand feet. This time it was watched by five workers, a
sailor, the island’s doctor, and a Navy officer—Lieutenant Inacio Carlos Moreira. "

"The first view was that of a disk shining with a phosphorescent glow, which—even at
daylight—appeared to be brighter than the moon. The object was about the apparent
size (angular diameter) of the full moon. As it followed its path across the sky, changing to a tilted position, its real shape was clearly outlined against the sky: that of a flattened sphere encircled, at the equator, by a large ring or platform. Its speed was around 700 miles an hour at the moment it disappeared into the horizon."

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(jc 11/22/2006):And if you still think it's all 100% totally impossible, click here(and then at the link that says "Brazilian Air Force")
to see a posting concerning startling case information, gathered by the Brazilian Air Force and released to a Brazilian UFO group in 2005.